General Motors spends a good chunk of its marketing budget promoting Chevrolet as an environmentally friendly brand. They’re even running ads for the Chevy Volt – an electric car that does not yet exist.

2. I have no further comment on this detail that appeared in The Times today: “Late Saturday afternoon, the governor hopped an Amtrak train to Washington, changing into a white-tie tuxedo in the train’s restroom.”

This is very close to being funny, but I can’t quite put my finger on why it isn’t. There’s something missing. It’s really a blog about yuppies, and most white people aren’t yuppies and not all yuppies are white.

I know what’s missing — we don’t have an up-to-date word for “yuppy” yet.

On 3/12/08 4:30 PM, <coworker> wrote:

How’s “Hipster”?
On 3/12/08 4:36 PM, <daryl> wrote:

Close, but hipster implies a level of coolness, youth and wealth that doesn’t match this list.